Re: Yocto usability questions

[Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>]

Hi Rainer,

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 04:52 -0800, Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 18.11.2011 21:54, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> 
> > I'd be happy to work with anyone who wants to in helping getting
> > something like that started, whether it be a variation on the above, or
> > something from scratch, whatever.
> 
> I just added a few FAQ entries to the wiki. I used the questions from
> Chris Tapp and what came to my mind recently. And I used categories, so
> that there is a hope for a sort of workflow. See
> 
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Category:FAQ
> 
> for details.
> 

I really like this arrangement for the FAQs - it makes it much easier to
find relevant questions (even better if it were eventually categorized
even further e.g. by topic), and more importantly much easier to find
the questions that still need to be answered. ;-)

> > In any case, it would be nice to have some concrete ideas on what would
> > make for a good walked-through example or set of examples...
> 
> Actually I'm still thinking if the wiki approach is helpful or if
> someone (maybe even me) should write a book. ;-)
> 

To me, the wiki does make a lot sense for FAQs at least.  For other
things like examples or walk-throughs or longer articles on specific
topics, I kind of informally think of the wiki as a staging area for
stuff that could eventually go into one of the official Yocto manuals,
most likely the Development Manual, which seems to want to become the
kind of book you're thinking about, and this has already happened in a
couple cases.

If you're thinking more along the lines of something like an O'Reilly
book on Yocto, though, I'm guessing you could probably also find
volunteers for that too here.  ;-)

Tom

> Regards
> Rainer
> 
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